The Ocala evening star ( 9 7, 1908 )

Permanent Link:

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00075908/00942

Material Information

Title:

The Ocala evening star

Uniform Title:

Ocala Evening Star

Alternate Title:

Evening star

Alternate Title:

Star

Place of Publication:

Ocala, Fla.
Ocala Fla

Publisher:

Porter & Harding

Publication Date:

9 7, 1908

Frequency:

Daily (except Sunday)
daily
normalized irregular

Language:

English

Physical Description:

v. : ; 61 cm.

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Newspapers -- Ocala (Fla.) ( lcsh )
Newspapers -- Marion County (Fla.) ( lcsh )

Genre:

newspaper ( marcgt )
newspaper ( sobekcm )

Spatial Coverage:

United States -- Florida -- Marion -- Ocala

Coordinates:

29.187778 x -82.130556

Notes

Abstract:

The Ocala Banner was founded in 1883 as a successor to the Ocala Banner-Iacon, itself the product of a merger between the East Florida Banner and the Florida Iacon. In 1890, the Ocala Banner became a daily. Over the years it bore alternate titles: the Banner, the Daily Banner, and the Ocala Daily Banner. Situated in rural Marion County, the Ocala Banner covered farming, business, and civic issues in Ocala, where the Freeze of 1895 had devastated the citrus industry and paved the way for diversified agriculture and the growth of tourism. The most important of the early editors of the Ocala Banner was Frank E. Harris, a veteran of the Confederate army, who ran the paper in the 1890s. Other editors included T.W. Harris, who had published several other newspapers in Ocala, and C.L. Bittinger, who before moving to Florida had served as a commander in the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1895, the Ocala Evening Star surfaced as a rival to the Ocala Banner. Beginning in 1897, it also appeared in a weekly edition, the Ocala Weekly Star. During an address to the Ocala Rotary Club, R.N. Dosh, editor of the Evening Star in the 1920s and 1930s, recalled that the “Star first saw the light of day in the press room of the Florida Baptist Witness”, founded in 1884 as the weekly press organ of the Florida Baptist Convention, a branch of the Southern Baptist Convention. Former competitors, the Ocala Evening Star and the Ocala Banner joined in 1943 to form the Ocala Star-Banner, which remains the daily newspaper of Marion County.

Dates or Sequential Designation:

Began in 1895; ceased in 1943.

General Note:

Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 5 (June 24, 1895).

Record Information

Source Institution:

University of Florida

Holding Location:

University of Florida

Rights Management:

All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.

Resource Identifier:

11319113 ( OCLC )
2052267 ( ALEPHBIBNUM )
sn 84027621 ( LCCN )
sn 84027621 ( LCCN )

Related Items

Related Item:

Ocala weekly star

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University of Florida
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